Park Quotes - page 10

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better. (Susan Orlean)
I run in a local park two or three times a week. I probably should do more than I do, but I also do weight-lifting along with that cardio. View quote
Tilman J. Fertitta
If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure. View quote
Tony Kushner
I sit, I read, I listen to music, I go or a walk, I ride to Prospect Park and sit under the Willow Tree, I remember, I forget, I look at pictures, I do, I do, I do... or I don't, but its peaceful... only me... no worries. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is. View quote
Adam Ant
People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well. View quote
Bong Joon-ho
I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.' View quote
Ice Cube
When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park. View quote
Gareth Bale
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters. View quote
Deborah Harkness
To be denied was like getting shut out of a Public Park. (J.R. Ward)
Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap cheat sheet. View quote
Janet Evanovich
Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky. View quote
Janet Fitch
It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park. View quote
Jake Gyllenhaal
This was in Milwaukee when I was eleven years old. I went to see my sister give a dramatic reading. She'd been taking drama lessons. I walked into the hall, and there was a little stage at the other end, and maybe 150 people, parents mostly, or children like myself. The lights went down slowly, very slowly. Then it was dark. Spotlights hit the stage, and there was my sister, standing there in the. At that moment I thought, that must be the most beautiful thing in the world, to be able to arrange things so that people have to listen to you. "So, that's why I became an actor. Well, anyway, my analyst says it's better than running naked in Central Park... View quote
Gene Wilder
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. View quote
John Lithgow
Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse. View quote
George Saunders
You know what happens to sex in marriage? Instead of inviting desire, you monitor it. Especially men: You let her sleep late, you take the kids to the park, and all that time you're thinking, "Tonight I'll get some." That doesn't work. View quote
Esther Perel
Go for a walk through Central Park and stop at the Met. It's the best way to get a feel for what makes New York so special. View quote
Ivanka Trump
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game. View quote
Alyssa Milano
I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking. (Kevin Hart)
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier. View quote
Claire Tomalin
I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. View quote
Michael Fox
I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park. View quote
Billy Graham
Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar. View quote
Shane Black